Local chronicles of Hong Tong earthquake.

The Fenhe River Basin in Shanxi Province is an earthquake-prone area and an important part of the North China seismic belt. Fenhe river basin is a developed area in culture and economy in history, and some major earthquakes are recorded in different details in local urban and rural areas. 1303 September 17 At about 8 pm Beijing time (the sixth day of August in Dade, Yuan Dynasty), a strong wind suddenly blew in the vast urban and rural areas of southern Shanxi, which sounded like a huge thunder, shaking the earth, landslides, ground fissures, village castles and houses trapped in the city. This is the record of Hongdong 8 near Zhao Cheng, which has been recorded in detail in history. The damaged areas reached Taiyuan and Ding Xin in the north, Yuncheng in the south and parts of Henan and Shaanxi provinces in the south. The records of 5 1 counties in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces recorded the damage of this earthquake. The damaged area is distributed along the Fenhe River basin, 500 kilometers long from north to south and 250 kilometers wide from east to west. The intensity of the earthquake zone is 1 1 degree.